GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trance | stupor |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |
| bedraggle | to wet thoroughly |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| limpid | marked by transparency (see transparent |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |